Delimiting appliance for closures



Sept. 2, 1952 J. I.. MOORE 2,608,711

DELIMITING APPLIANCE FOR CLOSURES Filed May 4, 1951' Il.. H' I l IulIl11mm" ullmh. lll!! HIWHIWm @I l l u INVENTQR. F15 A.JOSEPH LEONARD.MOORE ATTO/WE1)l Patented Sept. 2, 1952` UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE-DELIMITING APPLIANCE FOR CLOSURES Joseph Leonard Moore, New Carlisle,Ohio, as-

-signor of one-half to Isaac Earl Van Pelt, East Cleveland, OhioApplication May 4, 1951, Serial No. 224,591

(Cl. 1li-82) 2 Claims. 1

pair of exibly connected vacuum cups, one of which is to be caused tocling to an interior wall or other surface andthe other of such cupssimilarly to some portion of the inner face of the door.

My objects have been: economy of manufacture, durability, facility ofattachment or detachment, universality of use, compactness forpackaging, convenience of adjustability, avoidance of deformation ofsurfaces to which attached as also insurance against abrasive marring ofany surfaces during use and the guarantee of silence vin operationwithout any frictional resistance. All the specied objects have beenattained and commercial approval likewise through the use ofcord-connected, rubber vacuum cups having perforated bosses throughwhich the cords adjustably extend together with enlarged cord ends forpreventing a separating withdrawal of the cord.

Adverting to the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a refrigerator, with its door open anddelimited in its opening movement by the appliance embodying myinvention.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the assembled appliance on an enlargedscale approximately its v actual size, as initially made and used.

Figure 3 is a still further enlarged, cross-sectional view through oneof the rubber vacuumcups and cup-connecting cord.

Each of two concave-convex cups l carries on its convex side aprotuberance or solid, rubber boss 2 of oval shape and provided with a,longitudinally extending hole 3 therethrough. Passed through the hole 3of each cup is a flexible cord l of suitable length when its twoextremities are knotted at 5 whereby to prevent their withdrawal andseparation from the cups and after determination of the maximum distancebetween the two cups which it shall have been concluded to establish topermit the cord to become taut when the closure is in its desirablyfull-open position, depending upon the interior wall area of arefrigerator '6 and the inner surface of a door 'l to which the cups areto be firmly yet detachably aiiixed, as shown in Figure 1, so asselectively to control the range of door-opening swing.

I claim:

1. The combination for use as a delimiter of the relative movement of ahinged closure with respect to itsV support, comprising a pair ofvacuum-cups of predetermined interior contour and of adequate size andselectively attachable to said support and closure respectively and aflexible cord having its ends slidably connectedwith said cups and saidcord being provided with means whereby the length thereof may bemanually adjusted to provide various lengths between said cups andsecured to each, said double adjustment permitting the cord to becometaut and to serve as a check when said closure is in its suitablymaximum open position, whereby a series of limited, open positions areachieved upon adjustment of said adjustable cording, the arrangementfurthermore permitting the flexible cord to curl into available spacebehind the closure.

2. The combination as in claim 1, wherein a central area of the convexside of each cup is formed with a boss having a hole therein and theends of the cord are detachably secured in the holes of said bossesrespectively with the cordprovided means comprising the coniiguration ofthe end sections of the cord.

JOSEPH LEONARD MOORE.

hammamssr CITED The following references are of record in the ille ofthis patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,530,784 Midgley Mar. 24, 19251,543,912 Gammeter June 30, 1925 1,588,477 Kingston June 15, 19262,315,566 Watral et al. Apr. 6, 1943 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date130,367 Switzerland Feb. 1, 1929

